Maybe they're stuck in past. Maybe they're blind to facts. Or maybe they just don't want to change.

Whatever their reason for failing to deliver practical, real-world tools and systems that support your entrepreneurial growth, I can assure you that it's rooted in fact that these so-called experts don't recognize that there's a new business paradigm that has emerged — one that’s being defined by small-business owners.

(As big and dominant as they were, dinosaurs are no longer with us. I wonder if dinosaurs ever thought they'd become extinct.) For far too long, "big business" has received way too much attention from media, educational institutions, and training companies. According to data compiled by SBA, small businesses employ more than 50% of nation's nearly 111-million employees, and a staggering 99.7% of businesses in US are classified by SBA as "Small."

Yet, vast majority of trainings, workshops, and educational programs meant to help you grow your business still remain focused on traditional big-business "sheep-herding" model — with all its rigid idea-smashing, momentum-crushing baggage.

As a business owner, if you want to win big in this Marketplace of New Millennium, you'll need to attract, retain, and build relationships with your clients in a brand new way.

But to do that, you need a better way to grow and optimize your business than how "old guard" would have you think.

As an entrepreneur, you need an effective, yet flexible, approach to growth using YOUR system as THE system — not big-business "sheep-herding" model.

Here's what I mean …

Traditional education, average consultant, and most business development gurus all tout a highly regimented approach to growing a classical “top down” business. Like a massive ship steaming toward an iceberg, they find it nearly impossible to change course and adapt to fast, flexible structure of today’s small businesses.

And much like Titanic, they have challenge of momentum, ego of "expert" leadership, and tainted judgment about profitability because THEIR model for making money doesn’t match what really works for average small-business owner.

Just try and throw this statement out at your next networking function or family gathering and watch sparks fly. Emotions may flare up, yet it will not discount validity of this statement.

To prove this point and show you how we may limit ourselves by choices we make, thereby giving you freedom to make choice to succeed in your business and life, I'll give you three, very simple examples.

1. The Three-Letter Word That Can Cost You Millions

One of ways my clients “go out of bounds” in their coaching calls with me is when they use word "but." Consistently using this three-letter word will cost you relationships, sales, and moneymaking growth opportunities.

The word “but" shuts down communication, turns off your creativity, and turns you into a victim.

Ask yourself honestly if you've ever been guilty of saying or thinking any of following limiting beliefs:

But that won't work. But I've always done it this way. But I've tried everything. But I don't have a college education. But I don't want to do that.

Repeating any one of these statements will limit your future success. Stopping use of this dirty, three-letter word is under your control.

2. The Four-Letter Word For "Victim"

When you use word "can't," you are training your brain to shut down by focusing on how something won't work — before you ever have chance to consider possibilities of how it might work.

Countless business owners have become enormously successful because they saw how something could be done, while everyone else saw all reasons why it couldn't. (Can you say "FedEx"?)

Expressing ill-thought-out phrase, “You can't do that in my industry," is merely a poor excuse for poor performance and a cry of victimhood. Make conscious choice to banish word "can't" from your vocabulary and watch growth opportunities begin to appear in your business and life.

Consider this statement issued in 1899 by Charles H. Duell, Director of U.S. Patent Office: “Everything that can be invented has been invented.”

That sure sounds like he was telling business owners that they “can’t” create anything new, because it “can’t” be done in their industry, doesn’t it?

Just think how many people believed that statement, and gave up trying to invent anything more advanced than what already existed. Sure, in hindsight, it’s pretty silly.

Thank God there were entrepreneurial creators who refused to listen to “experts” and went ahead and created anyway.

Did you know that currently there is such a backlog of inventions waiting for approval in U.S. Patent Office, that many cures for ailments that people are suffering from are being held up for almost a year? There are so many NEW things ahead of them that need to be reviewed and approved!

Amazing, but true.

3. The Green Giant

The easiest way for you to continue to struggle in your current financial situation is to pass judgment on people who are more financially successful than you.